in a medical center in boston under armed guard artie's honest as he has the latest. ever since being arrested friday night after a mass lockdown an unprecedented manhunt and a several hour shoot outs with law enforcement and joe hart are naive doesn't factor mean a hospital in boston in serious condition the latest that we're hearing is that he is finally a week and officials are being able to ask him certain questions that he's answering sporadically in writing they're trying to find out. whether or not there are more explosive devices that they should be looking into and whether or not certain accomplices might have been involved in the case the details of the answers that your heart and i have as good as giving them are not being provided at this time of course side since people arrested him he has been in a serious medical conditions we know that he has received he's gotten service certain injuries to the throat and was on able to speak while lot of the prosecution is preparing to bring charges against him we know around

a rights have been revoked the right to remain silent as well as the right to a lawyer and this is something that the u.s. government has basically revoked from so naive because they are using certain clause the cause of the cause is called the public safety exception this is something that's been largely debated by politicians and civil rights groups in the united states because earlier officials had announced that there's no immediate threat following the bombings any longer so the fact that they're using this public safety clause is something causing a controversy here on the ground but we know of course that officials are doing this to be able to ask him as many questions as possible without her name being able to use the right to remain silent while this is ongoing certain republicans in the united states are suggesting that's her naive be treated as an enemy combatant this is also something that's causing much to be here on the ground because of course we're talking about a u.s. citizens are naive did become a naturalized citizen last year in september eleventh and has been living in the

united states since two thousand and two some officials are going even further they're saying that he should be taken to guantanamo one lawmaker even suggested that he should be tortured and this is of course something bad civil rights groups here are saying that is quite unacceptable. the suspect's family claims had been under f.b.i. surveillance for the past five years and refused to believe that the young men carried out the atrocity. over went to the north caucuses where the brother's family lives now and spoke to one of their relatives in the city of nashville is in deep shock for what happened the brothers ferentz refused to talk to any media in the early saturday but i managed to speak to a close relative of the family to part two months are you mom the one who is married to the voice uncle now she told me how ready tragic and difficult the life of the family was but for years they have been moving from one place to another the father of the two brothers couldn't find a proper job they have been moving from kyrgyzstan to change them back to the later

to dagestan where they spent just a bit over a year until they moved to the united states in two thousand and two now she showed us some pictures were taken during that time in some of them captured those brothers in their early childhood and then one comment the older brother is just over a year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of law and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she describes him as a really nice family loving and caring young man he talked a lot about his american wife katherine and about their daughter and when i asked her whether she expressed any acts or interest in islam she told me that his interest was never overwhelming the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic she was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical we would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme fighting much was devastated she remembers that just heart of the younger brother

plan to come to dagestan this may and now their father plans to go to the united states to burry time at lon can believe they were involved in that tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could carry it out just. it's terrible but i can believe it there are children who respected their parents from the middle on was very attentive to older people to his family for him have been was at his mother's feet the parents' mobile phones are rare he switched on by half since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers on the phone and the woman sounded. her sons are in the sense she also mentioned her eldest son time middle and was under constant surveillance for years but on sunday she refused to answer any questions asked for the father he told me also in a telephone conversation that he doesn't want to talk to any media now dozens of journalists the comp this sunday on this region really holds up the timeline when

will it be and will hold for someone to watch their sons and the main suddenly back in the boston terrorist attack with one down the other under an armed guard and as we've been reporting russia apparently warned of the f.b.i. that one of the suspects was a following a radical islam but u.s. investigators apparently saw nothing suspicious former u.s. federal agent coleen rowley explain to us why she thinks the case wasn't properly pursuit. well there's this two hour possible explanations here and maybe both windy as there is this idea that when you're looking for a needle in a haystack the answer is to put more hay so they are collecting what data are what at the gate at massive data and innocent americans that's all part of this top secret america and actually it turns out you know feeling began to call me in on the real critical pieces the other object and joel explanation is that you know

this idea terrorism is such a confusing concept because we have our terrorists and their terrorists it's the definition is supposed to be acts of violence against civilians for political purposes but you see this over and over where there that you u.s. considers that there are good rebels and good freedom fighters at the very least the separatists in other countries are not considered as terrorists the lack of follow up that the f.b.i. has had is not unusual. and of the revelation that the boston bombings suspects are of the chechen origin is led to a quick shift in american attitudes towards the region on our two dot com what we have opinion on how the standard us a portrayal of arms chechen groups as freedom fighters changed overnight to depict them now as for militants.

in the boston marathon attacks were not the only tragedy to hit the united states this week a powerful blast ripped through a small texas town on wednesday after a fertilizer plant caught fire at least fourteen people lost their lives most of them emergency responders and almost two hundred were injured. well you know i don't think i think you're going to hear anybody say to you that a powerful explosion which is believed to have been an accident flattened entire neighborhoods in the town of weston leaving several schools and a nursing home in ruins a spokesman for the texas department of public safety was at the scene and described what he saw. i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and exploded so you can imagine what kind of

damage we're looking out there the disaster is believed to have been caused by ammonium nitrate and potentially explosive fertilizer stored at the plant in large quantities fears of a toxic leak and further blasts led to a mass evacuation but now that people are returning to their homes there remains a question mark over how the plants slipped through the snow the net of safety inspectors dr jeffrey patterson from the school of medicine at the university of wisconsin thanks a federal regulations are protecting business interests at the cost of human life. there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business from thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are probably getting new regulations if there is another which a merchant open that will all of the clean up to being much more lax than it

currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's a strong and just move. to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. revving up for revolt while police in bahrain violently suppressed by government protests accompanying a formula one grand prix as a peaceful demonstrators call me international community to acknowledge human rights abuses in the kingdom instead of racing cars. plus israeli police parade a handcuffed palestinian teenager in front of an angry crowd saying they just wanted to calm the protesters down details just ahead. nicolas maduro has it taken the reins of power in one of the world's most oil rich

nations he was sworn in as venezuela's president on friday but it's been a rough start for the chosen successor of the late hugo chavez as his narrow victory sparked post-election violence that left seven people dead the government blames the opposition for instigating the clashes which erupted when thousands of supporters of mature as main rivals took to the streets they demanded a total vote recount the country's top electoral body finally agreed to a partial audit but cautioned that the poll was irreversible dr william robinson a professor of sociology at university of california santa barbara says that the protests might be part of an ongoing effort to destabilize venezuela. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington another type of the. not a new tactic on the part of the new the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right too in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out to stud was and this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within

that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for properties and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this election which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case them with with little governments around an election it will launch violence and trying to create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the result and this is the at least of this is an incredible the proper scene on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive will because mexico is a close ally of the united states it's the u.s. immediately look recognizes the results in the group the charges by opposition the destroy the research has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections even if the audit does confirm a duros victory the newly elected president will have a trouble maintaining his predecessor's popularity in america scholar miguel tinker

solace told us about some of his challengers. i think it tells us that there are real problems in venezuela and that mother will have a very short period in which she has to begin to address these issues or will have to will have a confronting a crisis within his own party and among his own supporters he has to address head on the question of prying the question of inflation the question of infrastructure eliezer real issues that affect real venezuelans and although they felt the pain for a job is a significant number also now begin to criticize and to see them need to actually carry through and implement change i think we're going to see a continuation of venezuelans foreign policy i think there's a difference between criticizing us and being anti american i think will see a promotion of latin american policy the promotion of a multi-polar world that is the u.s. is not the dominant issue on their agenda they have relations with russia with china with europe with that with latin american countries and will see i think

a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chinese administration and my little recalled was the foreign minister in charge of china's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. and we've got more analysis on what the post chavez landscape in venezuela could look like on our dot com don't miss out on our vision section there where you'll find dramatic pictures from the recent protests that's along with plenty of other stories waiting for you there online. human race has a back up plan in case a disaster strikes earth go to our t. dot com for all of the details on where american scientists have discovered planets that could support human life. detroit's streets could soon be cleared of the homeless but find out why the police's way of dealing with the issue is causing complaints and concern at the r t dot com for the full story.

the checkered flag has come down on formula one's bahrain grand prix race which just hours before it began saw protests against the event being hosted in the country that followed days of mass protests leading up to the race by activists angry that it was being used to mask the gulf kingdom's grave human rights abuses rallies for democratic reform have been going on for two years now off and turning violent with more than seventy people killed on both sides a crackdown even extends to writing on twitter with the country's most famous human rights activist job of being behind bars for posting anti-government messages boyko reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a sauna so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have

a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking the fans why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people. has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers prize predominantly. the population of earth. sincere receive a number of other activists and brain spring two thousand and. ten to present to the fraser wright was the most prominent voice for the. speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed. you would you want to overcome. difficulties and you know that the

changes that you were fighting for four hundred years is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my dad's price might be your life for a newbie over jobs that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish form because he did not resign on the same stand besides. yes or if you it's hard for the people with that much courage to come. you can't be cowed and so i think it's long term prospects the court could amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses environment there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom

anytime soon buddy boy can see london's ecuadorian embassy. in iraq at least three people have been killed and more than twenty wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant in the city of fallujah near the country's capital that's according to police saturday's prevention actions were marred by violence with bombs and mortar shells exploding near polling stations injuring dozens of iraqis have cast their ballots in the country's first vote since u.s. combat troops withdrew at the end of two thousand and eleven the election also took place against a backdrop of anti-government protests ranging in raging in sunni dominated provinces where voting was postponed due to security concerns the new a local authorities will have to cope with a country deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines and in the grip of fierce competition for its rich oil reserves are off as more. they call them those who

face death peshmerga gone once guerrilla fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraqi soldiers are allowed to be on. this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the

heart of the disputed territory is cure kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them. it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's this view that because. but of course the other reason is. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested kirkuk a sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and alex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't

been able to sort out how well has transformed kurdistan into a boom town in the capital overbill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two. of our reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. now under some other international news in brief for you this hour the death toll from the massive earthquake in the southwest chinese province of sichuan has reached two hundred seven with over eleven and and a half thousand more enjoy. damaged roads traffic jams and large aftershocks hampered of the rescue operation the six point six magnitude earthquake struck the region on saturday morning in two thousand and eight a quake in the same province left more than seventy thousand people dead. demonstrators in new delhi have clashed with police on the second day of furious

protests over the rape and torture of a five year old girl protesters and vented their anger over allegations that police ignored the girl's parents complaints that their child was missing and demanded that the city's police chief step down meanwhile doctors say the young victims condition has stabilized reports of violence against women have risen since the brutal gang rape of a student on a bus last december caused an outpouring of anger and numerous anti-government rallies. at least seventy four girls in the north of afghanistan have fallen sick after inhaling gas at their schools several of the victims remain in critical condition officials fear the schoolgirls might have been poisoned by ultra conservative activists opposed to female education since the taliban lost control of the country in two thousand and one women have won back their right to education voting and employment but sporadic attacks on female students continue. tens of thousands of

protesters have taken to the streets of paris of demonstrating against a new bill which will allow gay marriage and adoption by same sex couples the bill is set to be passed by parliament this week meanwhile thousands of supporters of gay marriage staged a town to rally against homophobia the controversial law has been a main part of president francois hollande agenda since his election and sparked regular protests across the country. london marathon runners have a paid tribute to the victims of the boston bomb attacks sunday's race was preceded by a thirty second silence the marathon taking in major london landmarks has been held under intense security hundreds of police were out in force along the twenty six mile route helicopters patrolled the sky and everyone approaching the finishing line had to pass a security checkpoint organizers hailed a vis the thirty third annual race as the most successful ever. israeli police

are being accused of using a handcuffed palestinian teenager as a human shield it is after a video emerged depicting them parading the youth to an angry crowd supposedly in an attempt to calm the protesters our middle east correspondent reports. on friday israeli police paraded those handcuffed palestinian youth during protests that were taking place in the palestinian neighborhood of abu dis which is on the outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides them with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying that they're outraged that israeli soldiers continue to use

palestinian children in this way as human shields with impunity the claim is that the teen was deliberately exposed to danger after he had been taken into custody and the israeli army spokesperson however has said that the move was to calm the violence especially after four hundred palestinian protesters attacked an israeli border police vehicle for almost four hours earlier this week palestinians mock the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possibly the palestinian national council back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four as a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails on wednesday about three thousand palestinian prisoners refuse they food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists told fifty metres of the prison fence that off the prison which is on the outskirts of ramallah in the west bank where they mounted a palestinian flag and this forced the i.d.f. as well as israeli border police to use why it control measures to disperse the

group also in gaza hundreds of people marched from gaza city to the offices of the international committee of the red cross the palestinian authority has sent and urgent matter to the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton calling for a prompt intervention to save the life of prisoners in israeli. tells her conky conducting a hunger strike the most notable among them is a present to some here is sol we who has been striking for some three hundred days there are four thousand nine hundred palestinians who are currently held in israeli jails hundred sixty eight of them under administrative detention without charge or trial. now greece could receive a transfer of three point two billion euros from its rescue aid package earlier than expected the money is a part of a near nine billion euro bailout which athens agreed to to with its international lenders last week the cost to greece is that it has to slash over four thousand public sector jobs before the year ends even as the lending troika pumps more money

into afghan's the country's industrial backbone is still on the slide has tom barton has been finding out. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent pits attack his plastic piping from tree confess along a key northern greece inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of yoga spits attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be old course did meet the just one softer that he and ninety five other staff seven million euros in wages and after a short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is that the story and of course the. pain is. very unequal across industrial northern greece the story is repeated this

fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics feral file it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialised fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they are all. it's criminal that a profitable industry will shut down an industry that produced high quality material and. workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back or cut them us in the path of those who have this the unemployment rate here is thirty percent by the years and it could be over thirty eight with no fission policy the situation is out of control

yes he said he workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work to martin. had r t a look at an obstinate part of the u.s. and that's living by its own rules explored texas with us in just a minute right here on our. do we speak your language i mean for the war not advanced. for music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn it in bangalore's keep these stories. for you here. in troy ulti spanish find out more visit.